Maybe unpopular opinion: NJ has better pizza on average, although you can find better pizza in NYC if you're looking for something specific. Just my opinion obviously.
Yep, because all the Italians moved there.
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#222Native New Yorker here. Out of towners are obsessed with the BEST slice, but the true measure of NYC's 45 degree greatness is the decent quality following a Poisson distribution. My tip: just travel to any random spot in the five boroughs. First; you will be impressed how close you are to a pizza spot wherever you are. Second: you will be impressed with the slice, and with the variety of people who are good at making…
That's because most of us have good pizza joints back home too, and we want to find out whether NY's famous pizza outdoes the places we know and like. We're usually only visiting for a short time and can't try six different pizza places unless we're going to eat nothing but pizza on our trip. And the best place often isn't the famous place. So it's worth it to us to put in the effort to search, while a local might not care as much where they get their pizza.
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#223Maybe unpopular opinion: NJ has better pizza on average, although you can find better pizza in NYC if you're looking for something specific. Just my opinion obviously.
Chicagoan here. It's cute to watch y'all compare that thing you refer to as pizza.
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Absolutely not. I've lived in a lot of places in the US, and almost none of them outside of a couple of major cities in New England had the equivalent of a NY slice. This has only changed somewhat recently (maybe past decade or so). Even still, it's not nearly as ubiquitous. It's kind of similar with bodegas, a lot of people will say "we have corner stores too" but that's not a bodega. It sounds snobbish sometimes bu…
New Haven CT has the best pizza in the US (and arguably the world)
Yeah, this guy needs to visit Wooster St stat.
Also, my fave place after living in New Haven for a year was technically in West Haven (Zuppardi's) but that's splitting hairs.
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Little Caesars is objectively terrible, sorry.
In my metro area they increased prices to $7. However, quality has drastically improved. If you haven't tried em recently they are very different than the old thin, taste like nothing, Little Caesars pizzas.
Are they using real cheese nowadays (even bulk processed cheese)? If so, perhaps they have improved. The last time I had one (which was admittedly a long time ago) they were using some kind of "imitation cheese-flavored product" or something along those lines.
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I see you did not go to college on a tight budget.
Egg and bacon / egg and sausage were like $2 when I was there in the 90s. And they were about twice the diameter of the ones you get at McDonalds. I don't know what it costs now, maybe this is something like avocado toast that's become anomalously expensive, but calorie for calorie it was as cheap or cheaper than pizza back then. They could be bought from most bodegas that had a stove, as the peer points out. (The LA…
$2 vs. a $1 slice...is twice the expense :)
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#227Maybe unpopular opinion: NJ has better pizza on average, although you can find better pizza in NYC if you're looking for something specific. Just my opinion obviously.
Chicagoan here. It's cute to watch y'all compare that thing you refer to as pizza.
Not a native Chicagoan here, but lived in the area for quite a while.
Chicago has not one but three distinct styles of pizza, the deep-dish which many think of as "Chicago style", the thin-crust with a relatively thin (compared to deep-dish, anyway) layer of sauce, cheese, and meats, and the square-cut tavern style.
All three are superior to anything the East Coast has to offer, IMO.
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> You don't get a lot of overly doughy, bad cheese, bad sauce BS unless you frequent dollar slice shops. I've eaten at plenty of dollar slice places and honestly find them adequate for the price. I think I've only ever had one terrible slice, ever - and it wasn't a dollar slice place. I was unsurprised when the place closed shortly after.
When you're drunk and just want something quick, hard to beat.
As someone who lives in the outer edge of an Outer Borough, my experience is somewhat different - most slice places close fairly early (10 pm on average in my area, slightly later on weekends) and long before bars do. As a consequence, my go-to when out and about is a chopped cheese from the local deli/bodega.
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#230Gotta get up to 101st and Broadway and try sal & Carmines. Little hole in the wall but was my favorite NYC slice despite no one ever talking about it.
Spent my adolescence going to S&C's nearly day of summer vacations. My closest childhood friend and I always grabbed two slices and sat at the table directly behind the column. Even though the original proprietors have passed on, the cheese slices are still world-class. The flavor of nostalgia probably enriches the sauce and cheese, but Sal and Camrine's remains the slept-on great slice in Manhattan.
Yeah unfortunately sal passed on maybe 7 years ago? But his grandson now operates it and was working under sal for quite a while before sal passed, and I didn't really notice a difference in the quality of a slice after the grandson took over. Unfortunately I moved to Colorado a few years ago and it's impossible to get even a mediocre slice here, let alone my favorite of all time